Museum Frictions

Ivan Karp is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship at Emory University. He has coedited numerous books, including Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture and Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Corinne A. Kratz is Professor of Anthropology and African Studies and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship at Emory University. She is the author of The Ones That Are Wanted: Communication and the Politics of Representation in a Photographic Exhibition. Lynn Szwaja is Program Director for Theology at the Henry Luce Foundation. TomAs Ybarra-Frausto was, until retirement in 2005, Associate Director for Creativity and Culture at the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1998, he was awarded the Joseph Henry Medal for "exemplary contributions to the Smithsonian Institution."

Foreword / Lynn Szwaja and TomAs Ybarra-Frausto xi Preface: Museum Frictions: A Project History / Ivan Karp and Corinne A. Kratz xv Introduction: Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations / Corinne A. Kratz and Ivan Karp 1 Part 1. Exhibitionary Complexes Exhibitionary Complexes / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 35 Exhibition, Difference, and the Logic of Culture / Tony Bennett 46 The Reappearance of the Authentic / Martin Hall 70 Document: 5:29:24 AM / Joseph Masco 102 Transforming Museums on Postapartheid Tourist Routes / Leslie Witz 107 Isn't This a Wonderful Place? (A Tour of a Tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao) / Andrea Fraser 135 World Heritage and Cultural Economics / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 161 Document: The U.S. Department of Retro, The Onion 203 Part 2. Tactical Museologies Tactical Museologies / Gustavo Buntinx and Ivan Karp 207 Communities of Sense/Communities of Sentiment: Globalization and the Museum Void in an Extreme Periphery / Gustavo Buntinx 219 Document: Declaration on the Importance and Value of Universal Museums 247 Document: Art Museums and the International Exchange of Cultural Artifacts, Association of Art Museum Directors 250 Document: Museo Salinas: A Proactive Space Within the Legal Frame, Some Words from the Director, Vicente Razo 253 Musings on Museums from Phnom Penh / Ingrid Muan 257 Community Museums, Memory Politics, and Social Transformation in South Africa: Histories, Possibilities, and Limits / Ciraj Rassool 286 Community Museums and Global Connections: The Union of Community Museums in Oaxaca / CuauhtEmoc Camarena and Teresa Morales 322 Part 3. Remapping the Museum Remapping the Museum / Corinne A. Kratz and Ciraj Rassool 347 The Museum Outdoors: Heritage, Cattle, and Permeable Borders in the Southwestern Kruger National Park / David Bunn 357 Document: Baghdad Lions to Be Relocated to South Africa 392 Revisiting the Old Plantation: Reparations, Reconciliation, and Museumizing American Slavery / Fath Davis Ruffins 394 Shared Heritage, Contested Terrain: Cultural Negotiation and Ghana's Cape Coast Castle Museum Exhibition "Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade" / Christine Mullen Kreamer 435 Sites of Persuasion: Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia / Howard Morphy 469 Document: Destroying While Preserving Junkanoo: The Junkanoo Museum in the Bahamas / Krista A. Thompson 500 The Complicity of Cultural Production: The Contingencies of Performance in Globalizing Museum Practices / Fred Myers 504 Bibliography 537 Contributors 577 Index 583

"Museum Frictions is not just a worthy successor to the preceding volumes Exhibiting Cultures and Museums and Communities, but a major leap forward. In the face of dramatic changes in the museum world during the past fifteen years, the last two volumes still remain a major platform for framing debate. I am confident that Museum Frictions will provide a similar service for the next fifteen."--Doran H. Ross, Director Emeritus of the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History "Just as Exhibiting Cultures and Museums and Communities set the agenda for museum debate over the last decade, Museum Frictions sets the agenda for the next. This is a wonderful book that must be read by anybody with an interest in museums, their transformations, dilemmas, challenges, politics, and futures."--Sharon Macdonald, editor of A Companion to Museum Studies "This marvelous and broad-ranging compendium by an eminent group of scholars provides a thinking person's guide to contemporary museum work. It tackles the philosophical issues curators, directors, and professionals face in the art of cultural representation. How do you get the world's diverse people to talk to each other in meaningful and significant ways? This book provides the intellectual tools for doing so, dealing cogently and adeptly with the complexity of globalization, conflicting perspectives, and the noise proffered by popular media. For a long book with large themes, it reads amazingly well."--Richard Kurin, Director of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution "Museum Frictions is a landmark publication which decenters the Western-centric bias of the existing literature. It shifts critical museology into a new register by challenging readers to think about the multiple ways that the globalization of a Western institution is transforming not only the dynamics of social interaction around the world but also the institutional nature of the museum itself."--Ruth B. Phillips, coeditor of Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums, and Material Culture